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Authors: Emily Diamand
Ways to See a Ghost (21 page)
A book results from the efforts of many people, well beyond the author, and I owe a great debt to all those who have pushed this one along. I’d like to thank my agent Penny Holroyde for her hard work, support and many words of sense. I am also incredibly grateful to the people who gave comments on early drafts: Pat Walsh, Susan Goundry-Kruse and especially Graham Lusby, who is always my first port of call in a plotting storm. Gray is for you, Graham.
Next, thank you to everyone at Templar for turning a pile of paper into a book. Especially Helen Boyle, who saw something in it and the designer and illustrator who have made it look so wonderful. And for making the final writing stages so pain-free, thank you to my editors: Emma Goldhawk for her help, advice and hard work; Catherine Coe for turning around my terrible grammar; and Sara Starbuck, for her warmth, wit and invaluable insights.
Finally, Matt and Arlo, you have my gratitude and love, always. Without you, it would be nothing.
Emily Diamand was born in London. She would have been a streetwise city kid, but when she was two her parents moved to rural Oxfordshire, surrounding her with fields, footpaths and the kind of things they thought would be wonderful for children to grow up with. She never got to be streetwise, but her parents were right about the fields and footpaths.
Emily was the booky type at school, but what she really wanted to do was save the planet. So she filled up her parents’ garden with ponds, chucked wildflower seeds about and worried about the rainforests. And then she went off to study environmental science at university.
After that, Emily did lots of things. She got paid to ask people in forests if they like trees, had a go at road protesting and worked on organic farms. For nearly eight years, she worked for Friends of the Earth.
Then she wrote a book,
Flood Child
. It won the Times/Chicken House award in 2009 and Emily went on to write a sequel,
Flood and Fire.
Emily now lives in Yorkshire with her husband and son.
www.emilydiamand.com
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First published in the UK in 2013 by Templar Publishing,
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